Faith as a motivation for organizing; organizers develop skills that are useful and needed in other occupations. Worked for NPA in Chicago, Oregon Fair Share; founded Portland Organizing Project; transferred to sales, then electoral politics, then workforce development.
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Gail, Kevin Jeans, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library
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The Center for Community Change created the Community Organizer Genealogy Project in order "to document the development of community organizing, the development of individual organizers and the connections among organizers, organizations and networks." The project was led by Don Elmer …
